What a week, scary!!!

Hello ladies! It has been a while since I've posted,, I've been really busy with work & school & mommy hood. Well we had the biggest scare of my life this week. I'll start with the back story.
Last weekend Riley learned how to pull up to standing (8 months). Awesome! Well until we learned that our entertainment center shelves were not properly secured down & she almost pulled a glass shelf on top of her. We secured them down and then tested them. Even being as "secure" as you could get them they still were able to be pulled out. So to the store we went looking for a new entertainment center. We found one that is high, has no knobs or shells to climb on and has thick enough doors we can put the baby lock on. Awesome.
We get home and my husband goes right to work putting it together, little did we know it came in a thousand pieces, and wasn't as easy to put together as the directions showed. It started to get late so I went to bed, the pieces were everywhere & I asked my husband to at least put them out of the way so i don't trip on anything. I have the worst luck and will trip if there is something to be tripped on. He laughed said ok.
The next morning (Monday) I get up start getting Riley ready for the day. Got ready for work, went to leave the house. But I forgot Riley's bottles. While holding her I turned quickly to go get the bottles. Well my husband had NOT done a very good job setting the remainder pieces of the entertainment center off to the side out of the entry way. We have wood floors, so the pieces of the wood entertainment center blended very well. I stepped on the backing of the entertainment center and fell with Riley in my arms. I had to make a split second decision to either fall on top of her (we fell forward) or try to make sure she fell on the carpet that lines our entry way into our living room. I tried to make sure she landed on the carpet. Well pieces of the wood entertainment center were spread all out in our living room and she landed mostly on the carpet, except for her head, that very loudly smacked the edge of a piece of wood that was on the carpet. My luck for that to happen. I freaked out, she was screaming hysterically I tried to look her over for the immediate signs of brain damage (I'm a medic). Her eyes looked ok, there was no dwelling immediately and it was slightly red where she hit, & she quit crying and was playing almost immediately. So I decided to take her to daycare and go from there. We got to daycare and I stayed playing with her watching her behavior for about an hour. She was acting normal. Her head had a pretty clear bruise by this point so we put an ice pack on it. But she was acting fine. So I went to work, I began calling daycare every hour to check on her, and went on my lunch break to see her. When I got to daycare and walked into her room they said she had refused her bottles and only ate very little that morning. I went to her and picked her up, as soon as I did she began throwing up, not spitting up throwing up. I called her pediatrician who told me to take her to the ER immediately and that I should have done it as soon as it happened. Feeling like an idiot, I went to the ER. The childrens ER got her into a room right away despite it being a packed ER. And a neurologist came in before any nurse ever did. He said because of the vomiting they think he has a bleed in her brain and wanted to do a cat scan. They took her back and had me hold her hands down while they strapped her head to the table and started the cat scan. Worst expierence of my life holding her arms while she screamed and cried. It came back that she had bad bruising of her skull but no bleed! She had fluid in her ears and when I picked her up that's probably what caused her to throw up. Today she is fine like is wrong, like nothing ever happened. My husband felt horrible and completed the entertainment center that night, then gave the two of us lots of love. He still feel extremely guilty but accidents happen I'm just glad she is ok. If your LO falls and hits their head take them to the ER. The doctor told me that you can not see a brain bleed or see any symptoms before its too late. I'm just glad she is ok!

Hello ladies! It has been a while since I've posted,, I've been really busy with work & school & mommy hood. Well we had the biggest scare of my life this week. I'll start with the back story.
Last weekend Riley learned how to pull up to standing (8 months). Awesome! Well until we learned that our entertainment center shelves were not properly secured down & she almost pulled a glass shelf on top of her. We secured them down and then tested them. Even being as "secure" as you could get them they still were able to be pulled out. So to the store we went looking for a new entertainment center. We found one that is high, has no knobs or shells to climb on and has thick enough doors we can put the baby lock on. Awesome.
We get home and my husband goes right to work putting it together, little did we know it came in a thousand pieces, and wasn't as easy to put together as the directions showed. It started to get late so I went to bed, the pieces were everywhere & I asked my husband to at least put them out of the way so i don't trip on anything. I have the worst luck and will trip if there is something to be tripped on. He laughed said ok.
The next morning (Monday) I get up start getting Riley ready for the day. Got ready for work, went to leave the house. But I forgot Riley's bottles. While holding her I turned quickly to go get the bottles. Well my husband had NOT done a very good job setting the remainder pieces of the entertainment center off to the side out of the entry way. We have wood floors, so the pieces of the wood entertainment center blended very well. I stepped on the backing of the entertainment center and fell with Riley in my arms. I had to make a split second decision to either fall on top of her (we fell forward) or try to make sure she fell on the carpet that lines our entry way into our living room. I tried to make sure she landed on the carpet. Well pieces of the wood entertainment center were spread all out in our living room and she landed mostly on the carpet, except for her head, that very loudly smacked the edge of a piece of wood that was on the carpet. My luck for that to happen. I freaked out, she was screaming hysterically I tried to look her over for the immediate signs of brain damage (I'm a medic). Her eyes looked ok, there was no dwelling immediately and it was slightly red where she hit, & she quit crying and was playing almost immediately. So I decided to take her to daycare and go from there. We got to daycare and I stayed playing with her watching her behavior for about an hour. She was acting normal. Her head had a pretty clear bruise by this point so we put an ice pack on it. But she was acting fine. So I went to work, I began calling daycare every hour to check on her, and went on my lunch break to see her. When I got to daycare and walked into her room they said she had refused her bottles and only ate very little that morning. I went to her and picked her up, as soon as I did she began throwing up, not spitting up throwing up. I called her pediatrician who told me to take her to the ER immediately and that I should have done it as soon as it happened. Feeling like an idiot, I went to the ER. The childrens ER got her into a room right away despite it being a packed ER. And a neurologist came in before any nurse ever did. He said because of the vomiting they think he has a bleed in her brain and wanted to do a cat scan. They took her back and had me hold her hands down while they strapped her head to the table and started the cat scan. Worst expierence of my life holding her arms while she screamed and cried. It came back that she had bad bruising of her skull but no bleed! She had fluid in her ears and when I picked her up that's probably what caused her to throw up. Today she is fine like is wrong, like nothing ever happened. My husband felt horrible and completed the entertainment center that night, then gave the two of us lots of love. He still feel extremely guilty but accidents happen I'm just glad she is ok. If your LO falls and hits their head take them to the ER. The doctor told me that you can not see a brain bleed or see any symptoms before its too late. I'm just glad she is ok!

Oh my goodness!! That is so scary!! Glad everything is ok! My oldest had a huge fall onto a hard corner a month ago and I felt like an idiot for taking her into the dr (they were like, it's just a huge bump, nothing is wrong) but that makes me feel better that I took her in... I'm not one to take my kids in for every little bump and sniffle but head injuries do scare me. Glad your babe is doing good.

Oh my goodness!! That is so scary!! Glad everything is ok! My oldest had a huge fall onto a hard corner a month ago and I felt like an idiot for taking her into the dr (they were like, it's just a huge bump, nothing is wrong) but that makes me feel better that I took her in... I'm not one to take my kids in for every little bump and sniffle but head injuries do scare me. Glad your babe is doing good.

Glad to hear everything is good with you and LO. On Tuesday night we had our first scare too, LO fell head first into the coffee table's leg. (of course not the GINORMOUS padding around the top of the table). Her forehead immediately swelled and turned dark dark blue. Took her to see the pediatrician even though he assured me over the phone she was okay as long as she didn't vomit. She checked out okay, but told us to watch her for 24 hours closely because you never know with a head injury. I'm still stressing out about it because I was standing right next to her when she fell and feel like I should have prevented it, I would have been a complete mess if we had to go thru a cat scan! You're a tough mama!

Glad to hear everything is good with you and LO. On Tuesday night we had our first scare too, LO fell head first into the coffee table's leg. (of course not the GINORMOUS padding around the top of the table). Her forehead immediately swelled and turned dark dark blue. Took her to see the pediatrician even though he assured me over the phone she was okay as long as she didn't vomit. She checked out okay, but told us to watch her for 24 hours closely because you never know with a head injury. I'm still stressing out about it because I was standing right next to her when she fell and feel like I should have prevented it, I would have been a complete mess if we had to go thru a cat scan! You're a tough mama!

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